Kidwell, Janice, 1930-1991

Janice Mary Kidwell was born on September 18, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to Thomas A. Kidwell, a wholesale florist, and Winifred Hemphill Kidwell. After graduating from South Shore High School in Chicago, she attended Mount Holyoke College from 1948-1952, majoring in economics and sociology with minors in art and the social sciences. Upon graduating she worked in sales at Bloomingdale's in New York City until the fall of 1953, after which she returned to Chicago. Early in 1954 she secured a position in advertising with the firm of J. Walter Thompson, working as a media planner/buyer until 1986, after which she was named Vice President of the firm. She served in that capacity until November 1988, when she assumed the vice presidency of Bayer Bess Vanderwalker. She died on March 28, 1991 in Chicago at the age of sixty.

From the guide to the Janice Kidwell Papers MS 0818., 1948-1991, 1948-1952, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)